This and 11 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings.

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Print, Ceiling Design

This is a Print. It was designed by Nicolas Pineau and Jacques-François Blondel and published by Jean François Daumont and Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. It is dated 1760–73 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered in plate lower left: Blondel architecte du Roy; lettered lower right: a Paris chez N.J.B. de Poilly rue St. Jacques a l’Esperance Et a present chez Daumont rue St. Martin

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, upper left: A.; numbered upper right: 6; inscribed in graphite, below plate, lower left: 47 / 63

Cite this object as

Print, Ceiling Design; Designed by Nicolas Pineau (French, 1684-1754), Jacques-François Blondel (French, 1705 - 1774); Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758), Jean François Daumont (French, active 1740-1775); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-374-12

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